“To write it, it took three months; to conceive it three minutes; to collect the data in it all my life.”
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A.E. Housman (1859–1936) English classical scholar and poet
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Pt. 2, Ch. 5
Papa Hemingway (1966)
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Kate Beckinsale (1973) English actress
Only a handful of people have seen into the Pharaoh's tomb.
Allure magazine, March 2008.
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“Three minutes then seemed a terribly long time limit.”
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When she recorded on 78 rpm in 1959 in "Khyāl: Creativity Within North India's Classical Music" p. 193